#Ultimate shower thoughts how to#

#Ultimate shower thoughts how to#

On the blog, we have four-part series beginning with A Primer to Quick Capturing for GTD, and in The Dojo, our online productivity community, we go even more in-depth and have courses on How to Capture and Store Your Ideas and How to Have Peace of Mind with Frictionless Inputs In Your Productivity System.

You can then triage it and decide how you will take action later at a more appropriate time. What you want to do is quickly capture the thought to your trusted system so that it is out of your head. You’ll keep it front-of-mind by obsessing over it, which will help you remember it, but it will distract you from whatever you were focusing on before which may be more important.You’ll forget it (the most likely scenario).Research has shown that working memory will only hold 4-9 items, so if you aren’t able to capture that thought, chances are one of two things will happen: Ideas and (even worse) to-dos will fall right out and nothing will happen with them. If you don’t have a way to capture those items, your system is like a leaky bucket. Whether we are talking about capturing ideas or tasks, you can’t have an effective productivity system if you don’t have a trusted way to capture thoughts when they come up. That was a very productive shower.) Capture Is The Foundation Of Any Productivity System (OK, that last one may not have happened to you, but it did to me. You’re in the shower and come up with the entire workflow, information architecture, and animation solution for an online furniture store room planner for your team’s class project.Your boss texts you in the middle of your workout and asks you to send him or her a document.Your partner asks you to pick up some avocados on the way home.You’re listening to a podcast or audiobook in the car and want to remember a product recommendation or excellent quote.Similarly, perhaps you’ve been in one of these situations:

You know if you don’t write down the idea, you’re going to forget it by the time you walk into the office. You’re driving, on a packed metro train, in the middle of a workout, or in the shower and you have it - the solution to the problem you’ve been struggling with at work.